parody
PAIR-uh-deenounMeaning a funny imitation that exaggerates the original
Memory hook PARROT-dy: a PARROT’s funny copy. The parrot copies Grandpa’s sneeze, only louder and sillier: “AH-AH-AH-CHOOOO!” It is a parody of his sneeze.
The class wrote a parody of a weather report, forecasting a ninety percent chance of homework.
In context The song was not original; it was a parody of a well-known lullaby, with the same tune but new, silly words about a cat who refuses to go to sleep.
Similar spoof, send-up, imitation, caricature
From Greek paroidia, “a song sung beside another”: para (beside) + oide (song).